dist
The verdict
“dist” is uncommon French (frequency #53,268 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,268
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dit ; participe passé du verbe dire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dist · dist · French
dist · rank #53,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,268
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disciplinée
Nearest frequency peer: disciplinée (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dist »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- différentie…
différentiels
46,735 corpus weight
- disciplinée
disciplinée
46,734 corpus weight
- dist
dist
46,733 corpus weight
- distraits
distraits
46,732 corpus weight
- donneuse
donneuse
46,731 corpus weight
- ducats
ducats
46,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dist » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dist |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dist » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dist is uncommon French at frequency #53,268 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dist in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dist, spelled D-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Dit ; participe passé du verbe dire.
- 2Il dit ; troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de dire.
- 3Il dit ; troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif passé simple de dire.
- 4Qu'il dît ; troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif imparfait de dire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’est (dist Gargantua) poinct besoing torcher cul, sinon qu’il y ayt ordure ; ordure n’y peut estre si on n’a chié ; chier doncques nous fault davant que le cul torcher.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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